男人为什么不如女人会赚钱

    视频游戏。克里斯•奥洛夫森写道：“我有两个儿子，一个14岁，一个15岁。除了你在文章中提到的那些因素外，我最大的担忧是视频游戏。因为正是视频游戏导致年轻人缺乏工作的动力和主动性，结果使他们在经济上始终停滞不前。”她希望看到有更多人站出来，研究视频游戏导致阅读减少，进而影响学习成绩的情况。

    K – 12教育体制偏向女孩。罗伯•雷森萨勒直言不讳地说：“是哪个傻瓜认为，正在成长阶段的小男孩们应该每天在教室里坐6-8小时的？” 对于过度强调大学学位，也有读者提出了批评。

    微生物学家刘平辉（音译）提到了日本——为无力读大学的高中学生提供职业教育体系——如工程与机械、商业与会计、农业与林业，甚至渔业等专业的职业教育。通过这种教育，日本青少年“在美国学生刚刚开始担心如何支付大学学费的时候，就已经开始寻找工作了，”他写道。

    大卫•丹森同样认为：“不断孩子们灌输这样的观念：如果你没有大学学位，你就是生活中的失败者。这是一种错误的信息。食品杂货店里的食物是由一名卡车司机配送的，而他不太可能有大学学位。店里的机械设备也是由没有学位的人负责维护的……中学后的培养非常关键……但请尝试从更宏观的角度考虑问题。”

    有读者发现，在学校时，男性在科学与数学专业上仍要胜过女性。而且在高薪酬的工业职位上，男性仍占主导地位。造纸工程专业毕业的科里•普朗特发现，男性主要从事工厂工作，如技工、管道安装工、焊工和钢铁工人等——这些工作每小时的报酬达到28美元。“你或许认为这些工作很快就要消失了，实际上并非如此，”他说，一家机修店为了跟得上订单的进度，正在全国范围内招聘足够多的机械师。

    女性在财务上的成就。古斯塔沃•A•杜兰明确表示，他对于最近女性的经济收益表示支持——他女儿拥有斯坦福大学（Stanford）的研究生学位——不过，他发现越来越多的男性却退居幕后，回到家中。杜兰写道：“我发现许多四十多岁的女性成了家里的顶梁柱，而他们的丈夫却整天无所事事。我认为，未来二十到三十年里，这将变成一种更大的趋势，除非我们的社会能更严格地要求男孩子们遵守纪律，负起责任……男人们同样也要对自己负责，这样他们才能帮助照顾好自己的孩子和爱人。”

    肯定性行动。T.J.威尔森对许多读者的观点表示支持：“不过，作为一名撰稿人，竟然没有提出任何肯定性行动，这让我非常意外。很多大企业实施强迫性的‘指导原则’，迫使他们歧视男性……例如，我听说在某个州，有一家大公司规定，80%新聘兽医必须为女性。”罗恩•戈达德抱怨称：“一直以来，我和我儿子们从美国公司得到的信息是，我们是第二选择。”

    不论读者们持有怎样的观点，大多数人都希望能就这个至关重要的问题展开更多讨论、更多研究，以便引起更多人的注意。（财富中文网）

    译者：刘进龙/汪浩

    Video games. "As the mother of two boys ages 14 and 15," writes Chris Olofson, "my biggest fear is that it's the video gaming, in addition to the factors you mentioned in your article, that is causing the lack of motivation and initiative to work and thus get a firm hold on the economic ladder.'' She wants to see more research on how video games lead to a decline in reading and thereby college performance.

    A K-12 education system biased toward girls. As Rob Ritzenthaler bluntly put it: "Who was the nut that thought that boys should sit at a desk for 6-8 hours a day while they were growing up?" Some readers also criticized the emphasis on obtaining college degrees.

    Microbiology professor Pinghui V. Liu cited Japan's system of vocational schools for high school students who can't afford college -- offering engineering and mechanics, commerce and accounting, schools of agriculture and forestry, and even schools of fisheries. With this kind of schooling, teenagers "can start looking for jobs at the age when American students are just beginning to worry about how to pay for their college education," he writes.

    Likewise, writes Dave Danson, "the constant message to your our young people that they are going to be a failure in life without a four-year degree is the wrong message to send to parents and young people ... The food in your grocery store was delivered by a trucker who most likely did not have a degree. The store mechanicals are maintained by someone without a degree ... Post-secondary training is vital ... But please try to look at the bigger picture."

    Several readers noted that in school, boys and men still outpace women in science and math. And they still dominate in high-paying industrial jobs. Corey Planter, who graduated with a paper-engineering degree, notes that men mostly fill factory jobs as millwrights, pipe fitters, welders, and ironworkers -- paying up to $28 an hour. "You may be thinking that these jobs are rapidly disappearing, however they are not," he writes, noting one machinist shop that was on a nationwide search for enough machinists to keep up with his orders.

    The financial gains of women. Gustavo A. Duran makes clear he supports the recent economic gains of women -- his own daughter has a masters from Stanford -- but he sees more and more men taking a backseat. "I am now seeing many women in their 40s being the main breadwinners while their husbands diddle [around] daily in odds and ends," Duran writes. "I think this trend will just get larger as we move on the next two to three decades unless we as a society become more demanding of our male children to be disciplined and accountable ... Men need to be equally responsible for themselves so that they can contribute to taking care of their children and their spouses."

    Affirmative action. "I was surprised, however, not to see any mention of affirmative action as a contributor," writes T.J. Wilsson, echoing a number of readers. "With so many major employers obliging 'guidelines' pressuring them to, effectively, discriminate against males ... For example, I read that a major employer in one state had guidelines that some 80% of its newly hired veterinarians be female." Ron Goddard complained that "every step of the way my sons and I were put on notice by corporate America that we were their second choice."

    Whatever their perspective, most of the readers who responded wanted more discussion, more research, and more attention to this vital conversation.